Facts
On this page you will find interesting facts about deforestation!
DID YOU KNOW.........
- One and a half acres of forest is being cut down every second.
- The size of 36 football fields of forest are lost every minute.
- Forest cover 30% of the Earth's land.
- It is estimated that in 100 years there will be no rain forests.
- Up to 28,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next quarter of the century due to deforestation.
- Around 25% of cancers fighting organisms are found in the Amazon
- Worldwide more than 1.6 billion people rely on forests products for all or part of their livelihoods.
- 12 to 15 million hectares of forest are lost every year.
- Tropical rain-forests which cover 6-7% of the earth’s surface, contain over half of all the plant and animal species in the world!
- Rain-forests can be found on every continent of the Earth, except Antarctica.
- Around half of the world's species of plants,animals and micro-organisms will be destroyed or very severely threatened over the next 25 years due to rainforest deforestation.
- Rain-forests used to cover 14% of the Earth but now only cover 6% due to deforestation.
- Around 2,000 trees per minute are being removed from forests around the world.
- Over 50% of the planet's forests have already been destroyed - it has been estimated that a forest area the size of two football fields is being destroyed every second!
YOU CAN STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING! HELP STOP DEFORESTATION!